When you can't beat them, overreport it to the point people get bored of hearing it and no one cares anymore.

It's like the Abu Ghraib prison photos, there was honest to goodness torture comitted by US soldiers in those photographs, people were outraged when they came out, now it's just like 'meh, so we torture'.

Well played. There's a third possibility: that there are novel factors at work this time. I've explained it elsewhere many times, but in short the phenomena are not cyclic, but rather exponential. Any serious logician can easily recognize that history does not "repeat itself", and to assume today is the same as yesterday and tomorrow will be no different is not only an expression of a gross hatred of human progress, but observably categorically false.

A lot of what happened there was the result of being stupid and disorganized. Just to use the Hellfire as an example, I can't believe "Bushmaster" really had to ask whether or not the explosion was "you guys engaging" If he didn't know, then obviously he doesn't have enough bearings to have ordered a strike like that in first place much less be the one in charge of making those decisions.

Some blame has to be put on the mental conditions of the soldiers themselves though. The reason they interpreted cameras as being AK-47's and children as insurgents is because their job is simply to kill people and they will find any justification for doing so.

After all, spreading freedom is whats most important. Civilians just get in the way.

I find it more repugnant that even suggesting that there's a problem with this war (or war in general) beyond this video gets you downvoted to hell. I swear that half the people who pretended to give a shit about peace a few years ago completely jumped ship as soon as this became Obama's war.

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